Wednesday, March 21, 2018

A 47 years old woman injured in a road accident, complained of pain in her back, tingling in both legs and inability to walk after the accident. She is being treated at SaiShree Hospital, Aundh, Pune with Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery (MISS) technique of Percutaneous Pedicle Fixation System by experts team from Sai Shree.

After the accident, patient underwent X-rays & MRI of the affected region and was diagnosed with a fractured Lumbar vertebra with the fractured bony fragment pressing on the Spinal Cord. This requires immediate attention and removal of the pressure on the Spinal Cord. The patient also had a pre-existing cardiac condition that made her a high risk candidate for Anesthesia and Surgery. Considering this Doctors team from Saishree Hospital decided to operate her using Percutaneous Pedicle Fixation System, this technique is safer as we need not open the fractured vertebra, but instead under Live X-ray control put 2 screws in the vertebra above and 2 screws in the vertebra below the fractured level with very short Surgical time and minimal Anesthesia. Patient was mobilized the following day and sent home within 48 hours from the time of surgery.

“Percutaneous screw fixation is increasingly being used as a minimally invasive fixation method for treating lumbar and thoracic spine disorders this provides with an indirect internal fixation of the fracture. However, this method is rarely used to treat the cervical spine because of its small dimensions and proximity to neurovascular structures.” Said, Dr. Neeraj Adkar
There are many benefits to having minimally invasive fixation, including: Small incisions. Small scars, shorter hospital stay after surgery, cosmetic healing, and after this surgery patient can start supported walking within 24 hours.
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Monday, March 19, 2018

Jupiter Hospital (Baner-Pimple Nilkh road, Baner. Pune-45) is organizing free consultation by MD Physician. To support you in your hour of need for medical advice, we have arranged for doctors on every Sunday whom you may consult absolutely free.

From the following day you can continue to visit your doctor for further consultation.

The Sunday OPD is our way of giving back to the community with the best in medical advice and care.

Friday, March 16, 2018

Annapurna Pariwar made new schemes in their credit society for giving more better and wealthy life to their members.

During 2017, Annapurna Group gave micro loans of around Rs.150 crores to the poor women and collected savings to the tune of Rs. 40 crores.

Annapurna group gives loans without any collateral or security and yet the repayment rate is 100%. The repayment was not adversely affected even during the difficult period of recent demonetization.

Annapurna Pariwar is a group of 5 Developmental Organizations working in Pune and Mumbai with an aim of empowering poor women and their families in terms of finance, education, health and child development.

At the press conference Dr. Medha Purao-Samant, Founder Chairperson of Annapurna mentioned that “beginning next year Annapurna will be moving towards cashless transactions with members as their bank accounts have now been opened with great efforts. Loans ranging from Rs.30,000 to Rs.2 lakhs will be given without any collateral. Health insurance claims benefit shall range from Rs.20,000 to Rs.35,000. She also appealed to them to enroll themselves in the Adharpurna scheme brought to them by Annapurna and to take loans only if necessary”.

The financial year 2017-18 was a turbulent year due to two major decisions of the Government of India –One –Demonetisation & the other – Implementation of GST.

The Microfinance industry which caters to the credit needs of the poor in our country suffered a major blow during 2017-18. The NPA of the Banking sector has also grown in the past few years. But the NPA of Micro Finance industry which was under 2% consistently for last 5 years rose to 9% at the national level & 20% at the Maharashtra State level.

In such a scenario, Annapurna Pariwar has done extremely well.

Annapurna Pariwar not only provides credit facilities without any collateral security / guarantee to the poor but provides a comprehensive financial package of credit, savings, Health & Life & Family insurance & old-age savings and also provides non-financial services like Day Care Centers for children & client education, Financial Literacy Training etc.

Annapurna Pariwar disbursed Rs.150 crores in the year 2017-18 to its members, who are also the shareholders of AMCCSL. The NPA (PAR) is under control at 1% which is much lower than the Microfinance Industry.

Annapurna Pariwar collected voluntary savings from its members - the amount rose from Rs.33 crores to Rs.40 crores in 2017-18.

Annapurna Pariwar disbursed Health Claims for the sickness of its members & their family members to the tune of Rs.91 lakhs in 2017-18. This is a unique facility which no other Micro finance industry offers. Micro Insurance in India is still not reaching out the poor & needy families suffering from health problems.

Annapurna Pariwar disbursed to the members Death claims & their family members to the tune of Rs.35 lakhs (LMF + FMF) in 2017-18.

With all the financial services Annapurna Pariwar has sailed through the rough waters in the past year.

In the year 2018-19 Annapurna Pariwar plans to extend a better package of credit, saving, Health & Life insurance. The loan size will be higher with a reduced interest rate. The Health insurance amount will be much higher than the previous years. Annapurna Pariwar made new schemes in their credit society for giving more better and wealthy life to their members. They increased loan amount and also giving higher ROI on FD’s.

Monday, March 12, 2018

The Master of The Art of Living, Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar will visit Pune, Satara, and Ahmednagar from 13th to 15th March. Gurudev will interact with the attendee’s on 13th March between 6pm to 8pm at VITS Hotel, Bibwewadi. A well-known singer of the Art of Living Shri. Vikram Hazara will perform in presence of Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji on 15th March, also a ‘ShivSanjivani Mahasatsang’ will be held at Bharti Vidyapeetha Ground, Katraj.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar is a noted spiritual leader, multidimensional humanists. His dream of creating a violence free world has inspired millions of people in the world. Serving and establishing peace in the world through interaction, Sri Sri is a fundamental form of non-violence and universal human values. Work by Sri Sri is beyond caste, religion and nation, that is the reason why millions of people come for internal peace and guidance. He have always emphasized and focused on need of raising human values through his various activities and speeches and beyond all this our identity as a person is most important than nation, gender, religion. They have always been trying to make world free of violence by increasing intercaste reconciliation, increase peace in the world, and reduce the gap between castes and exchanging different cultures to lessen fanaticism.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar has a dream to set up the world’s largest college in the world, giving world-class teachers, Sri Sri University, Odisha, is a small but concrete step in this direction. Thousands of students are now studying in such special addiction free environments.
We are proud to contribute to Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s dream about world-class education. The Maharashtra Art of Living desire to donate a hostel building to Sri Sri University.

This place will be known as ‘Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Bhavan’. The building will have a total of 138 rooms and the construction is 74,500 Sq. ft. and it can accommodate 400 students. This edifice will also include a museum that tells the history of Maharashtra and Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.

Monday, March 5, 2018

Gives a new lease of life to a 59 years old patient suffering from liver cirrhosis, on whom liver transplant was performed at Jupiter Hospital, Baner.

Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is liver inflammation and damage caused by buildup of fat in the liver. It is part of a group of conditions called nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, commonly known as fatty liver.

The liver of a brain dead patient was harvested and transported via green corridor from Nashik to Jupiter Hospital, Baner on 25th February at 7.25 pm. The green corridor was created from Nashik to Pune. The liver left Nashik at 4.18 pm and reached Jupiter Hospital, Baner at around 7.25 pm, in about 3.00 hours (normally it takes 6 hours.)A patient was admitted with RTA head injury at Rishikesh Hospital Nashik on 25th Feb. Since patient did not respond to the treatment, he was declared brain dead on 25th Feb, at 6.30 am. Rishikesh Hospital, Nashik medical team counselled the relatives of brain dead patient for Organ donation, to which they agreed voluntarily.

Dr. Gaurav Chaubal and Jupiter Hospitals liver team immediately travelled to Nashik and carried out the Organ retrieval procedure. The harvested liver was transported from Nashik to Pune in less than 3 hrs. Via green corridor arranged by Pune and Nashik Traffic Police departments.This liver transported from Nashik was transplanted in a 59 years patient suffering from liver cirrhosis at Jupiter Hospital, Baner.Talking about this, Liver expert at Jupier Hospitals Dr.Gaurav Chaubal said,“The family took a nobel decision to donate organs which has helped in saving the lives of all the patients who have benefited from this process. The doctors and patients family are grateful for this”. Dr. Somanth Chattopadhyay, Liver Transplant Surgeon of Jupiter Hospitals said, “The decision by brain dead patient’s family to donate his liver to a needy patient is also worth appreciating. It is very important to note that, through organ donation one man can give a new lease of life to another man. Jupiter Hospital is trying its level best to increase awareness about organ donation.”

Dr. Sunil Rao, Chief Operating Officer, Jupiter Hospitals Baner said, “Society will get benefited if more people like this come forward for organ donation”This surgery was conducted by Jupiter Hospitals Doctors team which consisted, Dr. Somnath Chattopadhyay, Dr. Gaurav Chaubal, Dr. Sharan Narute, Dr. Pavan Hanchanale and Dr. Parijat Gupte.Usually it takes 6 hours to travel from Nashik to Pune, thanks to the green corridor created by traffic police this transportation was achieved in just 3 hours. We thank Mr. Ravindra Singhal CP Nashik , Ms. Rashmi Shukla, CP Pune, and Pune and Nashik traffic control team, for creating this green corridor. Also role of Mr Sagar Kakad, coordinator Jupiter Hospital, Baner was very instrumental in coordinating the entire green corridor.